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...Senators next turned their attention to a stack of appropriation bills from which some $200,000,000 had to be shaved if the Budget was to be leveled up. First shaving: $3,000,000 off a $389,000,000 War Department supply bill...
...Balanced Budget...
...seethed with monarchist rumors as Chancellor von Papen put the screws on Prussia. This he did by abruptly forbidding a payment of 100,000,000 marks ($23,700,000) from the German Treasury to the Prussian Treasury, a payment on which Prussia had counted as indispensable to balancing her budget. Particularly excited by the Chancellor's drastic move were the South German states, fiercely jealous of their rights in the German family...
...immediate crisis was expected, since Chancellor von Papen and the leading members of his Cabinet had to depart for the Lausanne Conference. Meanwhile the Prussian Free State struggled heroically to balance its budget, raised a forced loan by levying on the salaries of State employes, succeeded in obtaining credits from certain friendly Berlin banks. Correspondents agreed that intra-German relations have never been more strained since the founding of the Republic...
...revue dealing with the celebrated troubles of the Chicago Board of Education. Last fortnight the Board received a twelve-volume survey of the schools (cost: $100,000) from Dr. George Drayton Strayer of Teachers' College, Columbia University. Chief recommendation: that $16,000,000 be pruned from the 1933 budget...